It is Satanic and idiotic to agitate for the dismemberment of Nigeria as a geographical entity; and those who hold meetings to demand that marauding cattle should not destroy farmlands are jokers. Once upon a time, a man called Salman Rushdie published a book titled Satanic Verses for which a death sentence was pronounced on him by some authorities that were vexed by the audacity and insolence of the writer. He escaped lynching by bandits, courtesy of British intelligence network.
Long before the publication of Satanic Verses, there was a vexatious book titled Maria Monk, causing a top clergyman to describe those who would be stupid to read it as idiotic. For the two books mentioned here, some task force and huge sums of money were devoted to buy up all the book everywhere and make bonfire of them. Those who had the chance and audacity to read these books would testify that they were not merely revelations of dark deeds, but also books of timely prophesies. Rushdie’s view that it was satanic to kill people in the name of religion was vexatious.
Deeds that are Satanic and idiotic are deeds that are reprehensible and ludicrous. In Nigeria, in recent times, some public notaries described agitators for a divided Nigeria as Satanic and idiotic. An abhorrent Satan is a clever dribbler who sets snares to lure unwary people into wrong paths through their own personal choice or volition. Without forcing anyone, people show their personal weaknesses via Satanic snares and antics.
Thus, the notorious tempter can be described as a quality control and assurance expert, whose clever antics are alluring and iridescent. You can neither outwit him nor buy him over with all the wealth on earth. To intimidate him with all the weapons of mass destruction is to be idiotic. Rather, the tempter, in a “Maradona”-fashion, uses a control of the human sensory faculty of discernment and analysis, to hold humans hostage. Control of that vital tool ensures optimal success.
On the other hand, the idiotic appellation applies to victims who fall easily to satanic antics by becoming slaves to myopic sensory perception. That faculty meant to serve as navigational rudder in the task of sensory perception became enthroned as a king which it is not. With that clever victory the tempter must be having a hilarious laughter that over 90% of humans have failed quality test. Yet, myopic humans in their state of mutual bondage can afford to describe others as Satanic and idiotic, when all of them are enslaved jokers.
One of Rushdie’s admirers revealed in 1983 that he witnessed a bonfire festival where several copies of Satanic Verses were set ablaze. He did talk about the supervisors of the festival dancing as they wielded swords while the book burned. For the book, Maria Monk, members of the Society of Jesus took on the task of buying off copies of the book and the mass burning thereof, as a book of sacrilege, written by an idiot. Yet one Akaluka was lynched somewhere in Nigeria for disrespecting a loose sheet of a holy book for toilet purpose in late 1994. Religious sentiments have no bounds.
During the Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) there were numerous testimonies of how “vandals” made huge bonfire where “holy and academic” books provided the fuel. Celebrants of the festival of fire were said to be “drinking and cursing” those who allowed idiotic books to “scatter their brains”. A military commander was alleged to have ordered that no book should be spared, especially in university libraries.
The essence of this article, despite the foregoing digressions, is to point out some wrong attitude which portray Nigerians as a “bunch of idiotic jokers”. A Nigerian who nationalised in Germany actually used that appellation: bunch of idiotic jokers, in his bitterness towards the Twitter drama. If the honest opinions of Nigerians were to be obtained on the issue of the nation’s image worldwide, the result of such opinion-poll would be shocking. It would show that a typical idiot is the fool who does not know that he is a fool; dancing naked in public!
With regards to the issue of indivisibility of the Nigerian nation, there are issues that should be examined. Apart from how the nation was formed via amalgamation, there are issues which are of vital importance, ranging from justice to self-determination. Perhaps, since the opinions of the various groups which were amalgamated in 1914 were not sought, the culture of a forced union must become a norm. The chemical process of amalgamation demands that various elements can unite and blend only when their differences can be brought to a tolerable state of nearness. There can be no forced union of widely different elements.
Human shenanigans and selfishness seek to distort and prevent the Laws of Nature in such ways that forced and arbitrary blendings bring about artificialities which endanger human existence. From the experiments in grafting in the plant world, to human cloning, results have shown that human vanity tries to dethrone the wisdom of the creator. By that means, humans have brought about various calamities whose consequences affect us in many ways we rarely recognise immediately. Like-minds blend more easily!
To seek to distabilise a country is not the same thing as protests and agitations arising from perceived injustices and acts of marginalisation. A book titled A Spiral of Violence, not written by an idiot, neither is it full of sound an fury, tells us that injustice is the leading form of violence, and that wherever it exists, stability and security would flee. But Satanic and idiotic humanity would rarely recognise that simple logic that you cannot have peace, security and stability when you sow injustices.
Perhaps, the meaning and concept of justice can also be distorted and perverted by Satanic and idiotic minds, through Luciferian antics of calling white black and black white, via the instrumentality of money. Or, is it justice to run a democracy via the antics of oligarchy? Yes, it takes idiotic minds swayed by Satanic snares to describe those who ask for justice in governance as Satanic, idiotic or as jokers. It is justice to destroy farmers’ crops, while those who demand for such practice to stop are jokers; then welcome to a Satanic and idiotic social era!
Dr Amirize is a retired lecturer from the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt.

By: Bright Amirize